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ESP icons James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett play a number of their Signature Series guitars on "Lords of Summer" from the album Hardwired... To Self-Destruct which comes out Friday November 18, 2016. James and Kirk have been...

Children of Bodom, the Finnish melodic death metal band featuring ESP-playing frontman Alexi Laiho as well as ESP rockers Henkka Seppälä and Daniel Freyberg, have released a cool lyric video for their song "My Bodom (I Am the...

The new Metallica double album Hardwired... to Self-Destruct is coming out very soon on November 18. In the video for "Atlas, Rise!", we see James, Kirk, and the other Met dudes in the studio, pounding out harmonized riffs...

Testament, who has been a highly influential thrash band hailing from the Bay Area since the '80s, has just released their new album Brotherhood of the Snake on Nuclear Blast Records. Check out virtuoso ESP player Alex...

Sinaro, the NY-based metal band led by Brazilian-born ESP rocker Gus Sinaro, has a new video for their song "The Sun Burns In Disbelief". Gus is seen here with his ESP E-II M-II guitar....

Held on Saturday September 24 in New York's famous Central Park, the Global Citizen festival was held to raise awareness of issues that range from poverty to hunger to environment and more. Metallica, who will soon be...

Guitarist Doc Coyle became a member of the ESP family in the 2000s when he was a member of God Forbid. He's now rocking in Vagus Nerve, and "Pull Me Out" is their first-ever music video. The song will be part of their...

Featuring ESP players Cory Brandan Putman and Jeff Hickey, Norma Jean hails from the Atlanta, GA area, and has spent more than a decade kicking ass on the metalcore scene. Their latest album Polar Similar was just released...

From Of Mice & Men's brand new album Cold World which was released today (September 9, 2016), here's the official video for their song "Real". OM&M features ESP player Alan Ashby, who has a killer LTD Signature Series...

The ongoing saga as told in a trilogy of videos from Slayer's most recent album Repentless comes to a sinister and often gristly end with the video for "Pride In Prejudice". In addition to the always-welcome Danny Trejo,...

Metallica, the most iconic of all metal bands, has released their first new music in eight years. It's "Hardwired", the opening track from their upcoming album Hardwired ... to Self Destruct, which is slated for release on...

Blood? Torture? Insane killers mutilating hapless victims? Sounds like the recipe for an excellent metal video, or a memorable Friday night. Here's the official video for "Splendor and Agony" by Sinsaenum,  the...

Featuring ESP player Tom Maxwell and his gleaming Snow White Eclipse, Hellyeah is a metal supergroup that includes drummer Vinnie Paul among others. Here's "Human" from their upcoming fifth studio album Unden!able, which...

Covering some timely topics like Muslim immigration, drug abuse, and bullying, the video for Death Angel's new song "Lost" is pretty heavy. But we're always glad to showcase the creativity of one of the most influential...

Hailing from Brooklyn, NY, Unlocking the Truth is a metal band that was started in 2007 when ESP playing frontman Malcolm Brickhouse was just a young child. By the time he was 13, the band had already performed their thrashy...

Hailing from the wholesome heartland of Kenosha, WI, Product Of Hate includes ESP players Cody Rathbone and Gene Rathbone, who are respectively rocking their LTD EC-1000 Silver Sunburst and LTD James Hetfield Snakebyte in...

Well, this is a pleasant surprise! Apparently former Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison has been keeping rather busy lately. In addition to his new band Vimic (who we'll be spotlighting soon), he's also put together yet another...

Are you ready to party? Because Wilson, the party rock band who party in Detroit like no partiers ever partied, definitely are. ESP players Kyle Landry and Jason Spencer are in Wilson, who are currently on tour. No dount...

"I used to play Viking-influenced melodic death metal. Then I took an arrow to the knee." Amon Amarth, the Swedish metal band with music that's only slightly more epic than their beards, is kicking ass with their latest...